Men's 200 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium
Location	Athens
Dates	18 September (heats) 19 September (semi-finals) 20 September (final)
Competitors	21 from 17 nations
Winning time	20.70
Medalists
Philippe Clerc     Switzerland   Hermann Burde    East Germany   Zenon Nowosz    Poland
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1969 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 200 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 18, 19, and 20 September 1969.^[1]

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.4	Q
2	Predrag Križan	Yugoslavia	21.6	Q
3	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	21.7	Q
4	Barcelo de Carvalho	Portugal	21.8	Q
5	Emile Jung	Luxembourg	22.2
			Wind: -2.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.4	Q
2	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.4	Q
3	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.4	Q
4	Dave Dear	Great Britain	21.6	Q
5	Georgios Mikelidis	Greece	21.8
6	Trendafil Terziyski	Bulgaria	21.8
			Wind: -4.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nikolay Ivanov	Soviet Union	21.6	Q
2	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	21.7	Q
3	Hermann Burde	East Germany	21.7	Q
4	László Mihályfi	Hungary	21.8	Q
5	Ole Bernt Skarstein	Norway	21.9
			Wind: -2.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	21.2	Q
2	Philippe Guillet	France	21.3	Q
3	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.3	Q
4	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.4	Q
5	Ossi Karttunen	Finland	21.4
			Wind: -2.8 m/s

19 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.9	Q
2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	20.9	Q
3	Hermann Burde	East Germany	21.0	Q
4	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.1	Q
5	Luděk Bohman	Czechoslovakia	21.1
6	Predrag Križan	Yugoslavia	21.2
7	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.3
8	László Mihályfi	Hungary	21.5
			Wind: -1.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.2	Q
2	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.2	Q
3	Philippe Guillet	France	21.2	Q
4	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.4	Q
5	Axel Nepraunik	Austria	21.5
6	Dave Dear	Great Britain	21.5
7	Nikolay Ivanov	Soviet Union	21.6
	Barcelo de Carvalho	Portugal	DNS
			Wind: -1.8 m/s

20 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Philippe Clerc	Switzerland	20.70	CR
	Hermann Burde	East Germany	20.94
	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	20.96
4	Hans-Jürgen Bombach	East Germany	21.07
5	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.09
6	Hansruedi Wiedmer	Switzerland	21.14
7	Pasqualino Abeti	Italy	21.18
8	Philippe Guillet	France	21.22
			Wind: 0.0 m/s